Ozempic maker Novo Nordisk facing pressure as study finds $1,000 appetite suppressant can be made for just $5

article doesnt present any pressure they are facing. also

Drug production costs are often shrouded in secrecy with little clarity on how they relate to prices, if at all.

Prices are never about cost, its what people are willing to pay. Which gets brutally exploited by pharmaceutical industry.

Literally almost every drug in existance.

obviously

anybody who believes pharma costs are justified by materials is... well, let's just call them uninformed. It's not justified by R&D costs or production issues. It's justified by the stock market, by the CEO having a race with other pharma CEOs for the biggest bonus, and by no other thing.

Meanwhile volvo assigns the patent for the 3-point seatbelt to the public domain because it will save countless lives.

Double pop! First time I've seen a privacy popup on top of a privacy popup. The top one you can only accept.

Well you see… there’s the yacht, the yacht they have to land the helicopter, and the smallish yacht they use to go into port because berths at dock are hard to come by.

Oh and the. There’s the helicopter, the pilots, the mansion in every state. Except, uh, the ones that tax rich people.

It’s all part of the cost…

CAD$650/month in Canada. I've lost 36 Kg (80 lbs) and I'm still losing weight. My blood work shows no signs of diabetes, my cardiac indicators are also excellent, but my hemoglobin is low because I don't eat beef anymore (not because of the Ozempic, I haven't been able to digest it for about six years.) I'm taking an iron supplement to build it back up.

Ozempic sucks until you stop fighting it. After that it's an easy ride.

I'm wearing an XL t-shirt and large sweat pants today down from 3XL in both eight months ago.

There’s a lot of mistrust with drug makers at the moment, for good reason and this is a great article on the breakdown of costs. They do have a point about recouping the cost of R&D but maybe they should be more transparent about how long it’ll take them to do so. MBAs are very good at pulling levers to make money, they just don’t think about the human element, which is the most important lever.

As I read that they charge just 155 bucks in other countries I guess the high price lies in not having a suitable health care system. You can't have both, calling other countries socialists or communists AND having good health care by having the same contracts that we have. Sorry.

Guys our government is broken.

$1500. That's how much eight weeks of ozempic costs for me if I had to pay out of pocket.

Seriously, no kidding but sometimes I think that people are still discovering capitalism

I'm diabetic, and also have a few mental health issues. The doc took me off Ozempic, citing it's side affects of messing with mental health.

Guy looks like Bill Gates without hair.

well you know the old adage, the bigger the margin, the better the rape

So why didn't anyone else start manufacturing it for $5 about 15 years ago then?

And a lot of people in my country are hoarding lots of Ozempic shots. Please remember this is for DIABETICS, and not for everyday weight loss.

In other news water is wet

I honestly don't get why so many people are so upset.

I get it with things like insulin where we know how to make it for years. But a new revolutionary drug? Sure their production cost is low but that doesn't include R&D and just think of how many drugs don't work. That's why when we do find something that works we can't expect it to only pay for itself, it has to make enough buck to basically pay for them as well, because why else even bother?

Just stop eating you land whales lmao. Eat a cellery or a carrot you cheato snorting Jigglypluff-looking icecream terrorists.

R and d would disaapear and no new drugs would be made if it wasn't for patents and profits.

It's only a fat loss drug anyway. Not like it's vital. If people just ate less they would get the same benefit.